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It’s a lovely day, the FA cup starts today for lower league teams, the premier league for the big boys..I am sat outside on Lewisham high street enjoying a coffee outside.. people watching, it seems lots of people of all creeds and colour and all ages and shapes and sizes have a purpose and look happy and optimistic.., maybe you should get out more? Can’t be good for your mental health to engulf yourself in misery and moan everyday.. it’s not what healthy people do. They get on with things..
And so do I
I am on a day out with my son before he goes to university
But that doesn’t stop me and a lot of profoundly reasonable, law abiding and honest people being deeply worried about our country and the idiots who want to nod happily whilst our leadership tears our country apart
For the record, and just in case you can’t decode it, we’re worried about idiots like you, but will do our best to protect you from what’s to come nonetheless
You may think that patronising
I don’t care
One day you may thank us
Jayne
I once lived in Lewisham and I still have a soft spot for it although I ended up walking further up the A205 to live in Forest Hill.
It was great walking around the pools of blood and smashed glass outside its pubs on the way for to work Monday morning after a heavy weekend as well as the faded grandeur of its high street which despite some heroic attempts by local business to get things going. Nor was it nice seeing the abandoned parks over grown and wasting away because there was no money to run them (thank you Margaret, and more latterly, George).
Lewisham is not Chiswick – right? But luckily, Lewisham was not Eltham either – although it might end up that way if this bunch Fascist Tories have their way.
The good people of Lewisham – like so much of the UK – needs new management – a Government committed to revitalising our inner cities and their communities. This is why we come here – to try to achieve that in some way.
We’re also introducing Brownshirts/Blackshirts, call them what you will, in the shape of the Covid marshalls. They won’t want to be giving up their 30k (paid in pieces of silver presumably) even when Boris says they’d look better in a uniform and they have to start hauling friends and neighbours off to the local gulag, There’s the point of the exact figure of 6. While it makes no more sense than 5 or 7, as a specific it merits policing which gives Boris the excuse needed to create his own private army.
I am hoping that is not the case
But it does worry me
That’s interesting. We have Covid Marshalls here in South Australia (where there hasn’t been a local transmission in about six weeks), they are just the usual friendly cafe/shop/restaurant staff with a home made tag. Doesn’t seem at all worrying here. Haven’t seen any of them do anything yet, and I don’t think they have any actual legal power. It’s just so there’s someone paying attention. But maybe it’s different in the UK.
Given what is happening here trust is at a complete breaking point
“Boris the excuse needed to create his own private army”
Jesus I’ve heard it all.. they at best like community support… you think they will supersede the armed forces, the police force and secret services?
And a lot of us don’t trust people like you when you doth protest too much
If not, then why are they paid more? Consider the amount of unemployment there’s going to be next year when no-deal and Covid combine their effects on the economy. Circa £30k’s going to buy a very great deal of loyalty under circumstances like that. Just what a despot wants when he’s trying to establish himself.
I suggested to my son the other day that these new “marshals” would need a nice black or brown shirt, or an armband with a nice bold symbol. But in the first instance I suspect they will have to make do with a fluorescent yellow tabard.
I hope they see themselves as friendly community volunteers, but I fear they might become a jumped-up inquisitorial squad who have to follow orders (I can certainly picture Priti Patel as Dolores Umbridge).
That is my fear
It is definitely the fear of young people
“we’re worried about idiots like you, but will do our best to protect you”
Really, listen to yourself and as the arrogance seeps out of your pores!! Think I’m fine actually, certainly do t need your help that’s for sure
Read your own post to see what arrogance looks like
While it would be nice for Scotland to finally get out of the dumpster fire that is English Nationalist Run UK to return to the EU or EEA and be a normal country. Frankly I can’t see that happening because the SNP for all their talk and talk and talk of delivering Independence Referendum far less actual Independence – have nothing to show for it since 2014. We were promised a referendum after the 2016 vote once we knew the outcome of the post Brexit UK – well that’s not happened. We now have the First Minister talking on and on about how Covid-19 Recovery is the most important thing we need to worry about – when the Scottish Government is without any of the actual powers needed to improve the tax base channel investment etc.
The best solution for Scotland is Independence and EU or EEA / Norway Style Arrangements. Yet it’s just not happening, maybe Catalonia scared the SNP into not acting fearing much worse than Madrid order, I don’t know. But all I can see is that Scotland the lifeboat so many in England think is going to happen soon – will become Scotland the Stockholm Syndrome Prisoner Nation. After all Catalonia has far more powers already compared to Holyrood and it’s own media and language to back it up. The soft power of the BBC and the unionist parties who take orders from Westminster is very very strong and if Catalonia can’t manage to escape what hope Scotland.
I do think Northern Ireland will reunite with Ireland in the next 10 years – but Scotland with a land border with England seems a pipe dream.
I think you are wrong
There is much more to the independence movement than the current SNP leadership
Richard,
I respect your views on this, and I agree with you that the independence movement is bigger than the SNP. On the other hand the SNP are the elected Scottish Governement and if they aren’t going to force the issue I don’t see legally how else the rest of the independence movement can deliver it. The Holyrood Elections in May will likely cement the current SNP leadership in power for another 5 years if they don’t want to push for a referendum it’s not going to happen. And 5 years before we even get a shot at independence is just far far to long in a post Brexit UK…. I hope you are right ever fibre of my being hopes for a better government for both Scotland and the UK (particularly if that Government actually goes after tax dodgers and has fair taxation for all) – but I fear it’s not going to happen in my life time.
Party’s change…look at Labour
The private army is another large step towards the failed state.
Only stark raving mad sociopath politicians in this current state of human law development believe they don’t have to obey international law. Two World Wars last century ought to have made that clear to the English having fought in both! Sadly the country now has too many poorly educated voters unable to see the wood for the trees!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/11/brexit-override-plan-would-breach-vienna-convention-qc-says
Sadly it’s politicians of a similar ilk (mad, sociopathic) who decide what education people are going to receive. Therein lies the drawback with going to any third party for your education; you only learn what they want you to know, which rarely includes any reference to your esteemed leaders being in fact mad and sociopathic both. If they don’t want to tell you of things which would be in your interest but not theirs to tell you, well, you simply aren’t told it, and when you start to stumble on things for yourself, you’re greeted with derision by all and sundry.
Every time I see “the Rule of 6” I think of The Prisoner! “I am not a number, I am a free man!” For those who are too young to remember it, here’s a link:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/
We bought our current home in Liverpool around 10 years ago, and had it renovated and extended (inheritance from my parents) to make it more suitable for our “old age”. I’m disabled anyway, so it was fairly easy to imagine what is a good idea! We have a downstairs shower room so when we can’t manage the stairs (I struggle already) there’s the possibility of turning our through living room into a bedroom. We thought it was a good idea, to be prepared.
Now I’m thinking I’d like to sell up and move to Wales. My best memories of childhood are from staying with my Grandparents in Dolgellau every Easter and Summer. We are lucky enough to have a static caravan near Abersoch, but prices there out of the question of course! I like the Welsh Government’s choices over Covid – they seem sensible. And while I am only just learning Welsh (it’s a struggle as we can’t go to lessons for obvious reasons, doing an online course), I’d be happy to vote Plaid.
But I suspect we’re a bit too much past it now to clear our cluttered home, market it, and find a new one in Wales. But it’s nice to day dream about what we might have done 10 years ago if we knew then what we know now! I reckon Wales will leave UK, probably as soon as possible after Scotland. Though how land borders could be managed is an interesting question!
I despair of the English government – what a load of greedy chancers they are. Makes me ashamed to be English.
Good luck
And there’s nothing wrong with Dolgelly, except the coast is a few miles more along the way
But your last comment hit a nerve I have been thinking in today when I’ve been out with my son who is heading for Aberystwyth next week (lucky chap)
What does it mean to be English now?
That’s a tough one to answer, bit I may work on it
‘What does it mean to be English now?’.
What a question.
Whether you are pro-BREXIT or not, I think it means that you come from what is fast becoming a pariah state on the international stage BUT yet again, we are trying to punch above or weight by thinking that we can do what we like, like the over-militarised Americans already do. It’s a sort of swagger that is not the sum of its parts.
We are now a smaller country who HAS to be friends and on good terms with everyone – our former trading block and new friends we wish to make. And yet, here we are saying that in the name of sovereignty, we can renege on any agreement we make with anyone when we feel like it. Just on a whim.
It’s bollocks.
Who are we kidding?
Ourselves – that’s who!!
“Great Britain” has been on the right side of history once in its existence; the 2nd World War. At every other turn, GB was a ruthless imperial power that would stop at nothing to maintain its supremacy, including genocide, piracy, people smuggling, drug running etc. etc. Now, in its death throes, its bumbling about, acting Billy Big Baws on the international stage, while the state is collapsing. This can’t end well.
Hi I was checking the exchange rate on Saturday and noticed there was a sharp dip in the £ since this news came out about UK breaking the Withdrawal Agreement and Good Friday Agreement and more or less automatic failure of talks and trade on WTO terms from 1 January. £ now more of less equal with euro (1.08 euro to £) on XE and dollar at 1.27. Why no coverage in media?
Good question
Hard to answer
Media owners will all have their bets on 🙁